from FORBES
“best of visual art 2023”
January 6, 2024
by Tom Teicholz
“First, a shout out to Sophie Chahinian, who … produces (and has produced) a large number of short-form documentaries about artists in their studios speaking about their work. … She is smart, intense, passionate about her work and the issues she cares about, and charming whether over a cup of coffee or at a party she is hosting.”
from HYPERALLERGIC
“How Gary Simmons Embraces the In-Between”
September 3, 2023
by Erin Joyce
“In both his approach to art making and in the subject matter he explores, Simmons foregrounds the unknown as an integral part of his process.”
from ARTNET
“Documentarian Sophie Chahinian Is Making a Film About Robert Longo and Spending Time by the Pool”
July 16, 2021
By ArtNet News
“We caught up with Chahinian about how she spends her relaxation time, what she’s working on next, and what she’s always got the fridge stocked with..”
from THE NEW YORK TIMES
“Arts and Commerce”
August 14, 2021
By Guy Trebay
“The emerald lawn of an East Hampton estate was a fitting backdrop for a return to summer revelry at Guild Hall’s 90th-anniversary gala.”
from ARTNEWS
“Robert Longo Discusses ‘Moral Imperative’ That Drives His Latest Work”
September 2, 2021
By Shanti Escalante-De Mattei
“Over the past several years, Robert Longo, the famed Pictures Generation artist, has begun creating work inflected with his political views, reflecting on some of today’s most pressing issues from the global migrant crisis to the Black Lives Matter protests for racial justice.”
from NPR WNYC
“Look Closely: These Black-And-White Images Are Not What They Seem”
August 9, 2021
By Susan Stamberg
“This is not a photograph. Looks like one, right? Nope. Artist Robert Longo used maybe the oldest medium known to man/woman to create it. It's a drawing he made with ... charcoal.”
from the Arts Intel Report on Air Mail
“The Artist Profile Archive: David Salle”
November 11, 2020
By Laura Jacobs
“Those who regularly read the New York Review of Books, where David Salle reviews art, know how articulate he is. Here, in the latest installment of The Artist Profile Archive series—in which artists talk process and ideas—is one of the definitive painters of New York’s ‘bright lights big city’ postmodernism.”
from the Arts Intel Report on Air Mail
“The Artist Profile Archive: Carol Peligian”
December 23, 2020
By Laura Jacobs
“This episode of The Artist Profile Archive focuses on Peligian and her recent work, including the sculpture Susurrus, an homage to victims of genocide. ‘I think art reminds us that we’re human,’ she says. ‘And I think there’s just something intensely pleasurable about coming upon it, it’s a reminder that we’re all in this thing, this thing called life, together.’”
from The Art Newspaper
"Our picks of the must-see shows to see in New York in January"
January 21, 2021
By Wallace Ludel
“Shirin Neshat's Land of Dreams (2019) is the New York debut of a sweeping new body of work by the prolific Iranian-American artist… Both of these films, along with a documentary directed and produced by Sophie Chahinian and titled The Making of Shirin Neshat’s ‘Land of Dreams’, will be viewable online.”
from The Express News Group
“Artist Profile Archive presents Luminaries in New Light, for all Time”
November 12, 2020
By Michelle Trauring
“For 15 minutes or less, viewers step into someone else’s reality, getting to know artist after artist through their work and the stories they tell Chahinian and her small team, whose goal is to provide a new level of accessibility to, what can be, an intimidating art world.”
from The East Hampton Star
“A Fresh Start to Fall at Guild Hall”
October 15, 2020
By Jennifer Landes
“Ms. Chahinian's film follows the people behind the scenes while making the video, which involved complicated sets and exteriors, detailed and richly thought-out props, and a dedicated crew who worked to bring it all together… It differs from the films that make up The Artist Profile Project, her effort to capture artists speaking about their work and inspirations in their own words. It also shares many similarities, but in a more complicated way. Instead of relying on the just the subject's viewpoint, this film offers a more panoramic view. In lieu of an examination of a career, this is a close-up perspective of a single work.”
from The Sag Harbor Express
“Shirin Neshat’s ‘Land Of Dreams’”
October 14, 2020
By Editorial Board
“And while she was filming ‘Land of Dreams,’ Sophie Chahinian of The Artist Profile was filming her. Now it all comes together at Guild Hall in ‘A Conversation on The Making of Shirin Neshat’s Land of Dreams’ on Sunday, October 18, at 5:30 p.m., featuring both Neshat and Chahinian on the John Drew Theater stage, interviewed by Guild Hall’s executive director Andrea Grover, recorded with all of the proper COVID-19 protocol in place.”
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